Today’s Amazon Free App of the Day is Happy Diary (3/5 stars, all ages).
Writing is not about the pen or the notebook, just like diary isn’t just about words. Writers rejoice! We are introducing Happy Diary, a multimedia diary app.
Happy Diary supports multiple resources, including pictures, audio and video, and adds them to the diary with a click or a drag. Creating a layout is easy with custom placement of the multimedia resources. The portable function makes it perfect for outdoors, for when pictures complement words, or vice versa.
There are several intuitive ways to view your diary entries, by calendar, list or chapter. Gently swipe across the screen to browse each entry or double-click on a picture to view all the pictures in an organized way.
Product Features:
1. Snap! Captions! And much more. This multimedia diary captures every drop of your creative juices on the go.
2. Say goodbye to boring words! Make pictures, videos or voices part of your diary with a simple click or a drag.
3. It’s your diary and your layout. Multimedia resources allow freedom of layout.
4. Seamless browsing of pictures and the ability to step into their related diary entries.
5. Featuring calendar view, list view or chapter view when organizing your diaries, in all exquisite ways.
6. Supports password protection.
Some other, more highly-rated journaling apps to check out include:
Dear Diary (5/5 stars, guidance suggested, currently priced at 99 cents) – reviewers love that this is a basic, straightforward journaling app that doesn’t have a lot of bells and whistles. From Amazon:
Dear Diary lets you keep your diary, daily notes, and reminders under lock and key. Dear Diary has conveniently marked each page with the current date. Also doubles as a calendar for reminders and notes!
To get started, simply set your password and email address. Your Dear Diary is all set up! If someone tries to access your Dear Diary, you will be emailed a notification. If you’ve forgotten your password, don’t worry. Your password is emailed to you after 3 failed password entry attempts.
It’s easy!
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One Amazon reviewer says:
“Remember the good old days when a diary wasn’t an appt book and a half-dozen other things? Well, this book harkens back to that simpler time! It just has the date and Dear Diary, and you take it from there.”
If you’re looking for a journaling app that’s got a little more fun, snark and functionality, consider The Bad Girl’s Journal (5/5 stars, guidance suggested, currently priced at 99 cents). From Amazon:
Inspired by the best-selling Bad Girl’s Guide books by Cameron Tuttle, this journal’s got it going on! It’s super cute, tons of fun, and very high-functioning–just like you. Developed by Bad Girl Swirl and Hard Boiled Industries.
FAB FEATURES:
* Choose a bold, inspiring Bad Girl alias as your password.
* Organize entries by topic (amazing idea, naughty note, to-do list, brain fart…)
* Capture the mood of each entry (yay me!, foxy me!, love crazy, crampy…)
* Choose from FOUR deliciously different journal themes–Swirl, Bling, Leather, or Cowgirl!
* Customize your text style, size, and color in every entry.
* Search entries for key words and phrases or search by Topic or Mood.
* Add photos to an entry—then Bad Girl-ize them with hilarious sassy stickers.
* Email your entries (with photos and stickers) to the world.
* Take a snapshot and save it to your image library or send as an eCard.
* Need instant privacy or the illusion of innocence? Just hit the Panic! button.
* Want to destroy the evidence or have a healing ceremony? Watch an entry go up in flames!
YOU ALSO GET… three adorably addictive mini games!
* Ask a Bad Girl! (Get entertaining advice from four certifiably-bad experts!)
* Daily Challenge (Spin the wheel and get inspired!)
* Sticker Sets (100 customizable color illustrations to accessorize your entries and Bad Girl-ize your photos.) Live the Bad Girl dream, write about it—and tell all your friends!
Saga Diary (5/5 stars, guidance suggested, currently priced at 99 cents). From Amazon:
Never miss a moment in your Personal Life Saga. Saga means a narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc. Saga Diary is a secure personal Diary / Journal app. You can write down your personal life saga in it. Taking notes is very easy in Saga Diary and it provides very efficient search.
Feature highlights:
– Take notes of your personal life saga. You can add/update/delete notes easily.
– You can secure your diary using a PIN (password protected for privacy)
– Provides very efficient Search on diary entries. You can search based on wildcards like ‘*’
– Provides search history.
– Easy navigation through entries. (Lists all the entries as a list and also provides paging through entries)
– Unlimited number of entries (depends on the amount of disk space available)
– Sorting the entries both ascending and descending based on dates.
– View diary entries based on date ranges (using filters)
– Auto save the notes.
– Both Phone and Tablet support (with special Tablet specific interfaces for usability).
– Send the diary entries in email
– Store addresses, links and phone numbers(in-built support to launch maps, browser and dialer by a single click).
– Export the diary entries to several formats like plain text, csv (MS Excel can open these files) and XML.
– Single click backup & restore diary entries.